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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20130085365 | ADAPTIVE ELECTRICAL CAPACITANCE VOLUME TOMOGRAPHY An electrical capacitance tomography sensor comprised of a sensor having a plurality of electrodes, where each electrode is further comprised of a plurality of capacitance segments. Each of the capacitance segments of each electrode can be individually addressed to focu... | 04/04/2013 |
| 20130076373 | TARGET SENSOR Target sensor comprising: sensor probe having a resonance frequency that changes as the separation of the sensor probe and a target changes. Oscillator arranged to apply a radio frequency (RF) signal to the sensor probe, the oscillator having: control circuitry configur... | 03/28/2013 |
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| 20120262186 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR MEASURING IMPEDANCE OF AN ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE Real-time battery impedance spectrum is acquired using a one-time record. Fast Summation Transformation (FST) is a parallel method of acquiring a real-time battery impedance spectrum using a one-time record that enables battery diagnostics. An excitation current to a ba... | 10/18/2012 |
| 20120249162 | SIMULATION OF PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD IMPEDANCE VARIATIONS AND CROSSTALK EFFECTS A method for altering an impedance of a conductive pathway on a microelectronic package includes applying a magnetic field to the conductive pathway. The microelectronic package may be, for example, a printed circuit board. The method also includes controlling a magnitu... | 10/04/2012 |
| 20120182025 | Optically Stimulated Differential Impedance Spectroscopy Methods and apparatuses for evaluating a material are described. Embodiments typically involve use of an impedance measurement sensor to measure the impedance of a sample of the material under at least two different states of illumination. The states of illumination may... | 07/19/2012 |
| 20120038368 | System and Method For Performing Electrical Impedance Tomography An electrode array, a system and a method for reconstructing the distribution of electrical properties within a multi-material object. One embodiment includes electrodes arranged along a three-dimensional helical path to provide one or more helical arrays and circuitry ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20110316558 | CIRCUIT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING A SENSOR A circuit system for evaluating a sensor, wherein the circuit system comprises two complex impedances (2, 3, 13, 14), wherein the complex impedances (2, 3, 13, 14) are each part of a resonant circuit in which the complex impedances (2, 3, 13, 14) ca... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20100176817 | Bulk Current Injection (BCI) Probe with Multiple, Symmetrically Spaced Feeds A Bulk Current Injection (BCI) transformer is provided herein with a magnetic core and a plurality of windings. The magnetic core is configured for encircling one or more electrical conductors under test. Each of the plurality of windings are wrapped, at least in part, ... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20090015266 | RESONATOR, PRINTED BOARD, AND METHOD FOR MEASURING COMPLEX DIELECTRIC CONSTANT A plurality of through-hole vias connected to conductor layers is disposed with gaps left between these vias around opening parts disposed in the conductor layers in a printed board in which these conductor layers are disposed parallel to each other so as to sandwich a ... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20080315896 | TECHNIQUES AND APPARATUS FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF MUTUAL INDUCTANCE IN A SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MACHINE A system and technique for measuring the mutual inductance in a switched reluctance machine (SRM). In a first example embodiment of the technique, a voltage pulse is applied to primary coil when the machine is stationery. By measuring current in the primary coil and mea... | 12/25/2008 |
| 20080297170 | DYNAMIC INDUCTANCE MEASUREMENT OF ELECTRIC MOTOR A system, apparatus, and method for dynamic measurement of inductance trend of a motor are disclosed. In one of the embodiment herein the system is configured to acquire inputs from the DUT using a Trigger system, a horizontal subsystem and the programming unit. The sys... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080224715 | LIGHT-DRIVING SYSTEM CAPABLE OF PROVIDING SIGNAL-MEASURED CALIBRATION AND A METHOD FOR PERFORMING THE SAME This present invention discloses a light-driving system capable of providing an accurate calibration of signal measurement and a method for performing the same, including an automatic power control (APC) circuit which is pre-calibrated for a signal measurement process. ... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080204039 | Self Calibration Apparatus And Methods The present invention is a method to allow a vector network analyzer (VNA) to self calibrate without the addition of calibration standards, e.g. a calibration kit with a network analyzer.... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20070222457 | Method and system for non-destructive evaluation of conducting structures Method and system for non-destructive evaluation for a conducting structure by measuring the electrical impulse response thereof including applying a PRBS test input signal to the conducting structure, detecting an output signal from the conducting structure and process... | 09/27/2007 |
| 20070170929 | Control apparatus, semiconductor integrated circuit apparatus, and source voltage supply control system An excluding unit is controlled by a control signal received from a control unit, and based on the control signal a determination is made for each of circuit blocks as to whether either a voltage signal at a position of its corresponding circuit block or a signal indica... | 07/26/2007 |
| 20050270037 | Method and system for non-destructive evaluation of conducting structures Method and system for non-destructive evaluation for a conducting structure by measuring the electrical impulse response thereof including applying a PRBS test input signal to the conducting structure, detecting an output signal from the conducting structure and process... | 12/08/2005 |
